Your next step is to research some different internet sites to add to the knowledge that you have already collect from the print and school database sources.
Use the following sites to access additional information, statistics and even some games to enjoy and further your exploration of this topic.
You can search the internet on your own as well.
Some of the search terms you can use (but are not limited to) are "voting" "voting rights in the U.S", "voting process", "voting and democracy", "history of voting", and "youths and voting""electoral vs. popular vote", and "U.S. elections". Once you put in your search term, try limiting your search to .gov, .org, or .edu sites. You construct this type of search by doing the following.
search term site:.org search term site:.gov search term site:.edu. For example, if I wanted to search for information on the voting process on just government websites, my search would look like this: voting process site:.gov The same search on just education websites would look like: voting process site:.edu and on organizations websites would look like voting process site:.org. This narrows down your search and eliminates a lot of useless or biased sites from popping up.**
Use the following sites to access additional information, statistics and even some games to enjoy and further your exploration of this topic.
Bens Guide to U.S Government for Kids: http://bensguide.gpo.gov/
Kids.gov: The U.S. Governments official web portal for kids: http://kids.usa.gov/
Rock The Vote: http://www.rockthevote.com/
PBS Kids - The Democracy Project: http://pbskids.org/democracy/
Smithsonian Education: http://smithsonianeducation.org/students/explore_by_topic/history_culture.html
Here is a link to a virtual exhibit of voting machines - http://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Details/Vote!-The-Machinery-of-Democracy-2778
You can search the internet on your own as well.
Some of the search terms you can use (but are not limited to) are "voting" "voting rights in the U.S", "voting process", "voting and democracy", "history of voting", and "youths and voting""electoral vs. popular vote", and "U.S. elections".
Once you put in your search term, try limiting your search to .gov, .org, or .edu sites. You construct this type of search by doing the following.
search term site:.org
search term site:.gov
search term site:.edu.
For example, if I wanted to search for information on the voting process on just government websites, my search would look like this: voting process site:.gov
The same search on just education websites would look like: voting process site:.edu and on organizations websites would look like voting process site:.org.
This narrows down your search and eliminates a lot of useless or biased sites from popping up.**